According to Microsoft, Azure is an ever-expanding set of cloud services to help your organisation meet business challenges. It’s the freedom to build, manage, and deploy applications on a massive, global network using various tools and frameworks.
From DevOps to business analytics to the Internet of Things, Azure is designed to have users up and running quickly with a scalable, cost-effective solution that works with your existing investments.
This cloud computing service is a big part of Microsoft’s business, and it competes with similar services from Amazon and Google.
Therefore, our Azure Category is full of handy tips, tricks and advise. Check out some of the Step by Step blogs or learn with our eBooks, How To videos and Webinars.
A common problem for many organizations is to share and consume infrastructure templates. Many ended up with a storage account in Azure, but that had some limitations around versioning and sharing of secrets. Directly consuming templates from a Git repository is another option. However, that’s not exactly problem-free either. For example, what happens if a… READ MORE
Intro In this part of the blog series, I want to deploy my VPN connection to my on-premises environment and the log analytics workspace. Azure key vault Before I can start with my VPN connection I need to create an Azure key vault to store my VPN shared secret. The variables file for my key… READ MORE
This blog post will show you how you can configure Azure Arc prerequisites via the use of an Azure PowerShell script. Azure Arc allows you to onboard a wide variety of non-Azure resources, running on-premises, on other clouds or at the edge, into Azure. By projecting your existing non-Azure resources into Azure Resource Manager, it foresees a centralized management platform. Which makes it easier… READ MORE
Azure Logic Apps is a workflow platform that enables the user to design a workflow almost without coding in most cases. Users can quickly implement business logic by integrating different services through the connectors, especially since it supports the Pay-as-you-go charging model (Consumption plan). However, one downside of the Consumption plan is that it doesn’t… READ MORE
An overview of how Azure achieves hybrid by design covering Azure Arc and the Azure Stack Portfolio.
In this session, Geert Baeke looks at Flux V2 and Azure. He talks about best practices around structuring your git repositories, managing your deployments, and handling secrets. With GitOps you will supercharge your deployments to your Kubernetes clusters, wherever they are running.
This book will give you a solid understanding of cloud concepts and Microsoft Azure, starting by taking you through cloud concepts in depth, then focusing on the core Azure architectural components, solutions, and management tools. Download Chapter 9: Azure Governance – This chapter will outline various governance services in Azure, including resource tags, resource locks,… READ MORE
In my previous blog post, I have explained how we can collect custom attribute values by using Azure AD user flows. We had custom attributes setup in Azure AD and when a guest user accesses an application for the first time, the values for these custom attributes will be collected by using user flows. Azure AD entitlement… READ MORE
As written in part 1, policies are used to maintain the state. The Azure portal itself contains a lot of OOTB policies, but you also want to create and deploy your own. In this article, we will go over how to deploy the policy definitions using GitHub Actions. In part 2, we deployed the definitions via Azure… READ MORE
As written in Part 1, policies are used to maintain the state. The Azure portal itself contains a lot of OOTB policies, but you also want to create and deploy your own. This part will go over how to deploy custom policy definitions using Azure DevOps. Script The script shared in part 1 is adjusted to read out… READ MORE
